About Mr S Rajaratnam- acheivements

• Mr S Rajaratnam envisioned Singapore to be a 'global city'
  
• Mr S Rajaratnam actively involved in organising major political campaigns against Singaporean groups on the far left.


• Mr S Rajaratnam wrote the Singapore National Pledge in 1966.


• During his tenure as foreign minister, Mr S Rajaratnam helped Singapore gain entry into the United Nations.


• In 1970, Mr S Rajaratnam helped singapore to gain entry into the Non-Aligned Movement .


• Mr S Rajaratnam built up the Foreign Service.


• Mr S Rajaratnam helped to establish diplomatic links with other countries .


• Mr S Rajaratnam secure international recognition of the new nation's sovereignty.


• Mr S Rajaratnam carried out the foreign policy of international self-assertion to establish Singapore's independence during the period when the country faced significant challenges including the Konfrontasi conflict in the 1960s and the withdrawal of British troops in the early 1970s.


• In 1978, Mr S Rajaratnam helped to draw international attention to Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia.


• During Mr S Rajaratnam's term as Minister of Labour, he implemented tough labour laws to attempt to restore stability in the Singaporean economy and attracted multinational corporations to invest in Singapore.
  
• Throughout his political career, Mr S Rajaratnam played a key role in the successive pragmatic and technocratic People's Action Party governments that radically improved Singapore's economic situation, alongside huge developments in Social development on the island with massive expansion of healthcare programmes, pensions, state housing and extremely low unemployment.


• In the 1980s and 1990s, when the government began implementing several policies to promote the use of "mother tongue" languages and ethnic-based self-help groups such as Chinese development Assistance Council (CDAC) and Mendaki, Mr S Rajaratnam expressed his opposition to these policies which, in his view, ran counter to the vision of establishing a common Singaporean identity where "when race, religion, language does not matter".


• Mr S Rajaratnam disagreed on the policy of giving incentives to women who are college graduates and have more children, as he felt that the policy was unfair.